Google Workspace Engineering Lead

DDN; California; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

DDN is seeking a senior Google Workspace engineer to become the internal technical owner of the collaboration environment. The role drives Google Workspace, shepherds hypercare, and owns ongoing administration, security, reliability, and advanced support.

The engineer will work closely with IAM, Security, Service Desk, and the Digital Workplace team to ensure smooth operations, strategic migrations, and robust governance across all Workspace services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in IT infrastructure or collaboration engineering.
• 3+ years administering Google Workspace in a production enterprise.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of Gmail, Drive/Shared Drives, Calendar, Meet, Groups, and the Admin Console.
• Strong knowledge of mail flow, DNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, permissions, and data governance.
• Experience with SSO, IAM integrations, Google Vault, audit logging, and security controls.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex migrations and production incidents.

Responsibilities

• Administer and improve Gmail, Drive and Shared Drives, Calendar, Meet, Groups and other core Workspace services, including OU, admin roles, policies, domains and licensing.
• Own email configuration and troubleshooting, including routing, aliases, delegated access, SMTP, DNS, MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
• Set sensible standards for sharing, data ownership, storage and collaboration without friction.
• Monitor service health, manage high-severity escalations, and maintain runbooks and release controls.
• Lead partner-run transitions for mail, calendars and files; validate migration results and close gaps.
• Support migration from Teams to Google Meet and retirement of Microsoft 365 mail/OneDrive/SharePoint.
• Collaborate with IAM on SSO and access for Windows, Mac, mobile; integrate with Slack and enterprise apps.
• Build automation using Google Workspace APIs, Apps Script, Python, GAM for admin, reporting and lifecycle tasks.

Skills

Google Workspace administration

Email configuration

Incident handling

Tools

GAM

Apps Script

Python

Okta

Job description

DDN is seeking a senior Google Workspace engineer to become the internal technical owner of the collaboration environment. The role drives Google Workspace, shepherds hypercare, and owns ongoing administration, security, reliability, and advanced support.

The engineer will work closely with IAM, Security, Service Desk, and the Digital Workplace team to ensure smooth operations, strategic migrations, and robust governance across all Workspace services.